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The progressive movement in America? What a pretty name for communists!
Some of you are too young to remember William Jennings Bryan's "Cross Of Gold," speech, but his populism was thinly disguised leftism and overt anti-elitism. But that began to change, especially with Wilson, and then the equally execrable FDR. The progressives peaked in the 1930s-1940s with the New Deal, failed for 20 years, then came back roaring in the 1960s. But every time, America and Americans said...No!
Eventually. And they didn't roll back the rapidly growing elitist regulatory and administrative state. Which is odd, because it is quite obviously a product of our "elite" educational institutions, carefully cultivates the American version of royalty, and specifically rejects grassroots pressure that isn't linked to Tammany Hall style voting blocs.
And...it's back! But this time the left has found new allies in the 3rd World and Islam. No longer do they seek out American farmers or American unemployed or American students or American blacks. No...they have carefully cultivated an alliance with aliens...both illegal and legal.
That's the difference, and it's a big one. There is no core of patriotism (however weak) among the left's new shock troops. They vote blindly, like all leftists, but they also seek as payment a shift away from the overarching structure of American life, culture, and political institutions. The "Melting Pot" is gone, replaced by a hodgepodge of alien religious and cultural norms that are antithetical to American Exceptionalism, free markets, and the freedom and liberty on which this country was founded. Support for cradle-to-grave government aide is bad enough, but alien political philosophies that are directly opposed to the United States Constitution, in particular the growing number of majority-Islamic cities in America, will mean the destruction of the rule of law, and the loss of religious, economic, and cultural freedom that has created this country.
What they want is nothing less than the end of America. As Barack Obama hoped for:
...we are five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America.
NYC elected a communist Islamist Twelver as mayor.
VA elected as attorney general a man who spoke of murdering his opponents...and their children!
NJ elected as governor a hack politician who wants to bring European-style energy prices to America.
These are fundamental changes that will accelerate until the American people have had enough. But there's the rub.
Have we already reached the tipping point?
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The net positive of the whole episode is that we can see it exploding in the faces of the Democrats. Proof positive is the bullshit Epstein non-revelation/revelation about President Trump which has been thoroughly disavowed and debunked by the alleged victim. Not that that will stop the media whores and propagandists from trumpeting this as loudly and frequently as possible so as to distract from their paymasters' gigantic own goal with their debacle of the Schumer Shakedown Shutdown Shitshow. Most execrable, only because he's within earshot (God bless my wife who has the TV on in the next room a bit too loud) is the beady-eyed inbred slithering shitstain and credibly accused intern-murderer Joe Scarborough.
Meh, I'm just raising my BP thinking of expletives for that cheap yammering sellout/fraud of a whore (no offense to whores)
The net positive of it all is that the Democrats are now aiming their rhetorical guns on themselves (I can only imagine if a tranny or a Mangione out there got their Irish up about those Democrats who voted with the GOP to end the shutdown) — both with this meshugas and in having to deal with the fact that the bust out open insanity of the takeover by the communist youth brigades of the growing Mamdani contingent is opening a lot of eyes and turning a lot of stomachs in this nation.
To understand what’s now happening inside the Democratic Party, look no further than the historical analogy found in the Russian Revolution. There were some soft socialists, the so-called Russian whites, led by a guy named Alexander Kerensky. They were trying to hold off the Reds, and started off in an unenviable position militarily, but ended up winning because eventually there wasn’t enough systemic immunity to stop them. The liberal mainstream Democratic Party wants to capture what they think is the jet fuel of the radicals. Thus, Gavin Newsom raged against the end of the shutdown. His press office put out a statement: “Pathetic. This isn’t a deal. It’s a surrender. Don’t bend the knee!” . . .California Rep. Ro Khanna says the Democratic leadership is “out of touch.”
Khanna is a psychopathic commie wog. But when he says out of touch, does he mean with the transexual molotov cocktail throwers and Anti-semitic and anti-Christian street goons shooting up synagogues and churches or with normal, decent civilized American-Americans.
Brialliantine stick insect Gavin Newsom, at least at this point, is in my view the likely standard-bearer going into 2028. White male and hetero is usually the kiss of death as a résumé enhancer in Democrat circles, so he better hire Kamala to give him some sword-swallowing lessons.
But, Newsom is a disastrous pick in that he's yet another Californian and his record is well known and disastrous. Speaking of sword-swallowing, he'll go down harder and faster than Kamala did against Trump in 2024, Democrat cheating notwithstanding. A J.D. Vance victory should he, as I imagine, be the GOP candidate will cement in place the MAGA agenda and most crucially the most important domestic political policy agenda in decades: the sealing of our borders, and the continued removal of as many of the tens of millions of illegal aliens already draining and straining our economy and society. For the Democrat Party to continue to have sway over the American political landscape if not survive into the next generation (please God make them go the way of the Dodo) , to whatever degree of anti-American and anti-Westernism it degenerates to, from wherever it stands now, it must win the midterms and then the next election. From there it will no doubt use every instrumentality of government and the courts and its street goon terror brigades to erase the successes of President Trump and then take no chances by using whatever means necessary to seize absolute power as has been its goal for most 200 years. This is it, all the marbles baby.
As you can see from a few of the links, beyond his lack of communist fervor (though a criminal tyrannical despot for sure whatever the party label) and DEI credentials, there are a number of scandals and of course a record of disaster after disaster in California that make him, as I said earlier, toxic to the Democrat base as much as it does to us normal folks in the rest of the nation.
Trump’s invitation to Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa to the White House is a windfall for the former Al-Qaeda leader and a victory for the global jihad. Al-Sharaa has now walked away with a deal that likely surprises even him. He has been escorted into the Western fold with recognition as a legitimate dignitary, no longer sanctioned, and has even signed on to the global coalition to defeat ISIS. It is critical to review the background of al-Sharaa (known, in his days as a jihad leader, as Abu Mohammed al-Jolani) to appreciate the significance of his meeting with Trump — at the White House, no less. Al-Sharaa led the jihad group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTM), which was responsible for former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s fall. The process “essentially began in July 2011, when Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi—then the leader of the Islamic State in Iraq (ISI), previously known as al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI)—sent Abu Mohammed al-Jolani to spearhead his group’s entry into Syria.” Al-Jolani would later become the head of HTS, change his name to Ahmed al-Sharaa, and put on a suit to appeal to naive Westerners. He has done extraordinarily well, given how seasoned he is not only at violent jihad, but at stealth jihad as well.
The President is being ill-advised to say the least.
Yes we need mass deportations of as many if not all illegal aliens and for sure a moratorium on all immigration for at least a generation if not longer and with it, some sort of mass assimilation program for those who are here to inculcate Americanism and dismantle multiculturalism forever. And sadly that apples not only to immigrants legal and otherwise but to native born citizens who now have to be deprogrammed due to years of brainwashing in American academia.
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ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY LINKS
Victor Davis Hanson: Ellis Island built a nation through law and order; Biden’s border chaos dismantled it with lawlessness, division, and the greatest illegal influx in U.S. history. Confronting Anti-Ellis Island Immigration
A new documentary about the Palisades Fire of January shows California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) and Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass (D) touring the Pacific Palisades as it burns behind them — with a contingent of Los Angeles Fire Department firefighters accompanying them instead of fighting the blaze. New film leaves no doubt: Gavin Newsom, Karen Bass abandoned LA as it burned
Robert Zimmerman While it is clear these leftist protesters have nothing positive to
propose, it is their hate and anger that stands out above all.
All they can do is vent hate, pure and simple. The leftist protest at Berkeley this week: Feel the hate!
The legislation will return federal workers to their jobs with backpay, reopen executive branch agencies that provide critical veterans services and benefits like food stamps and fully fund the government until at least Jan. 30. Trump signs funding bill to end historic, 43-day government shutdown
But critics say that in blasting current Bureau chief, MAGA favorite Russ Vought, progressives like Waters are forgetting about the biggest threat to consumer data security in recent years: A massive data leak that occurred under the previous Biden administration, under the leadership of leftist favorite, former CFPB head Rohit Chopra. And by attacking Trump now, they are merely serving to highlight the leak and the huge risks of the agency having such expansive power and authority. Trump Admin’s Move to Cut CFPB Follows Massive Data Leak Scandal
Whatever the Founding Fathers had in mind, they surely did not intend for some Portland judge to usurp the president’s authority as commander in chief. Judicial Overreach Threatens the Republic
. . .“And what happened under Biden was the cumulative inflation, stated inflation, CPI was 2,023% of what happened to working Americans. Their basket of goods and services, food, insurance, auto payments was up in the 30s, so they felt a real gigantic differential there. And what we are going to do is by bringing back high-paying manufacturing jobs, President Trump is going to do what he did in the first term, and that is for hourly workers and working Americans to have real wage increases.” Bessent: ‘Real Wages Are Going to Increase,’ Easing Affordability Issues
CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY
“I am proud to announce that Chicago, Illinois, despite all of the radical opposition and obstruction we have from the Mayor and the Governor, has seen Car Theft, Shootings, Robberies, Violent Crime, and everything else, drop dramatically. Since the launch of the DHS operation ‘Midway Blitz’ in Chicago only weeks ago,” Trump wrote. President Trump Celebrates Chicago’s Falling Crime Rates After ‘Operation Midway Blitz’
WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM
Abbott has a patchy track record, failing to strongly support Attorney General Ken Paxton during Democrat-led impeachment efforts, and declining to organize a full forensic audit of the 2020 election. He has also overseen a rising Islamic influence in his state, with the Texas House declaring an annual “Pakistan Day” earlier this year. Trump Endorses RINO Overseeing Massive Surge in Islam in His State.
Giuliani for a lot of us will forever be remembered as “America’s Mayor” for the way he conducted his duties and for the incredible leadership he displayed as the embattled mayor of New York City in the aftermath of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Trump's pardon of Rudy Giuliani restores justice to 'America’s Mayor'
RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS,
Rep. Troy Balderson’s “Affordable, Reliable, Clean Energy Security Act” offers a practical, bipartisan roadmap to secure America’s energy future without sacrificing affordability or reliability. America at 250 Needs Energy Overhaul. ARC Is the Place To Start
THE 2020 and SUBSEQUENT ELECTION HEISTS , SHENANIGANS/FRAUD and AFTERMATH
The county uses paper poll books where voters sign next to their name before they vote. But in this election, only the names of registered Republicans and Democrats were listed in the poll books. Voters who were among the 75,000 independent and unaffiliated inviduals who were not listed had to cast provisional ballots. Pennsylvania County Launches Investigation Into Election Flop That Left 75K Voters Out Of Poll Books
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt wasted no time setting the record straight. "The Democrats selectively leaked emails to the liberal media to create a fake narrative to smear President Trump," Leavitt said Wednesday. "The 'unnamed victim' referenced in these emails is the late Virginia Giuffre, who repeatedly said President Trump was not involved in any wrongdoing whatsoever and 'couldn't have been friendlier' to her in their limited interactions." Democrats Released Three Cherrypicked Epstein Emails... So the GOP Released 20,000
DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY
Being a hypocrite in the traditional sense isn’t a good thing, but it’s better than the “authenticity” gauge for hypocrisy that doesn’t pay tribute to virtue at all. In Praise of Hypocrisy
DeSantis will be leaving the governor’s mansion at the end of his second term next year, and Rep. Byron Donalds is the apparent frontrunner to replace him, having already received Trump’s endorsement. Donalds has one primary challenger: Paul Renner, the former speaker of the Florida House, who is polling at 2%. EXCLUSIVE: Trump, DeSantis Could Be Destined For Head-To-Head Rematch In Key GOP Primary
Democrat Strategist Julian. . .Epstein said politicians are unpopular and “I think what you could find is somebody out of the business community that has charisma…and that can get some energy and charisma around a centrist idea of building.” (Get the Bud Lite Marketing Executive who hired the tranny - winning!!!!!! - jjs) Democrat Strategist: Party Must Look at Non-Politician for 2028 Nominee
The denial aims to prevent regional tensions and political backlash while clarifying the U.S. role in Gaza remains advisory and logistical. Is the U.S. Military Building a Base in Gaza?
“According to the statement released by the prosecutor’s office, the organized crime investigation bureau has prepared the indictment,” Sabah reported, “which involves 105 suspects currently under arrest, 170 under judicial control and seven with outstanding arrest warrants. Additionally, five individuals were listed as ‘complainant-suspects’ under judicial control.” Turkey Seeks to Imprison Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s Top Election Rival for 2,000 Years (Straight from the Hillary Clinton playbook - jjs)
Millions of ADHD patients may experience reduced therapeutic effects, potentially worsening symptoms like fatigue or concentration issues. FDA Issues Recall for ADHD Medication.
The pharmaceutical industry and Sen. Bill Cassidy have recently been pressing for “reforms” to the drug discount program, which would sharply limit the extent to which hospitals are able to use it for financial support. Senate’s Big Pharma ‘Reforms’ Could Cost Taxpayers $100 Billion
ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY
From Jay: “I saw it outside while observing the Starlink ‘train’ of satellites, a deep red color. NOAA has it listed as a ‘G4 (severe) storm.'” Sounds terrible, but don’t panic. The biggest threat is to the power grid, and utilities have now spent decades planning for these kinds of storms. Northern Lights set to dazzle UK and US this week due to possible ‘severe’ geomagnetic storm
FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY
“Gay sex had to be evacuated of its substance...Advocates of homosexuality’s subversive and countercultural value also lose in the shift toward identity.” How Gay Identity Trumped Gay Sex
She famously shared the screen with Paul Newman and Robert Redford in “The Sting” and appeared in “The Way We Were” with Barbra Streisand, “Revenge” with Kevin Costner and “Cold Feet” with Keith Carradine and Tom Waits. Actress Sally Kirkland Dead At 84
In short, Barrett has the proper conception of the judicial role. Boldly expressing these sentiments (while also “walking the walk") so early in one’s career on the Court is akin to lashing oneself to the mast to resist the Sirens’ songs that have tempted other jurists to succumb to Beltway flattery—sometimes referred to the as “Greenhouse Effect.” At the age of 53, and with five terms under her belt, Barrett could easily serve on the Court for another 20–30 years. (Fittingly, the literary-minded Barrett uses the same reference to Odysseus and the Sirens to convey the role of a written Constitution to restrain the temptations of pure democracy.) Amy Coney Barrett Listens to the Law
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Like the Steam Deck, the 6" black cube called the Steam Machine is at its heart a PC built on AMD components. It has a six core Zen 4 CPU, and a 28 core RDNA3 GPU.
It comes with 16GB of RAM in two DDR5 SODIMMs, 8GB of GGDR6 RAM for the graphics card, and 512GB or 2TB of SSD in an M.2 2230 slot. There's a vacant M.2 2280 slot to add storage of your own.
On the I/O front it has HDMI, DisplayPort, one USB-C port, four USB-A ports, and somewhat disappointingly, gigabit Ethernet.
It also has four built-in antennas for wifi, Bluetooth, and the Steam Controller, and a built-in 300W power supply so you don't need an external brick. It's cooled by a single 120mm fan.
And most importantly it comes running SteamOS rather than Windows.
Give how determined Microsoft is to drive its own users away, I am looking forward to this little device. It's literally half the speed of my current desktop (which has a 12 core Zen 4 CPU and an RDNA3 graphics card with twice the graphics cores and RAM) but for something that sits quietly in the living room attached to the TV it looks ideal.
It's a Framework 16 laptop with RTX 5070 graphics - which on this particular laptop are upgradeable.
The one surprise is that the graphics upgrade somehow upgraded the display from 100% sRGB to 100% DCI-P3, which is probably really just a colour profile switch.
"Sir, are you aware that tonight is the first anniversary of TRex doing the Wednesday ONT?"
As Weasel might say, "Holy Shitballs! How in the ever-loving Hell has it been a year of TRex doing the Wednesday ONT?!"
Holy Shitballs indeed. Thank you, Horde.
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Good evening. The time has come for mid-week shenanigans of the overnight variety.
Welcome to the mostly peaceful Wednesday night ONT which means another random assortment of interweb odds, ends, and mystery clicks. Pull up a chair and sit a spell. Prepare your puns and fire at will. Be nice to your fellow commenters and AoS contributors. Pants are optional!
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I wanted to get a gift for the Horde for the occasion. Other than music, movies, food, bewbs and guns, what does the Horde like most? My gift to you:
It was hard getting over my addiction to the Hokey Pokey.
But I've turned myself around and that’s what it's all about.
I was so confused last night as my printer started playing music
Turns out the paper was just jamming.
Not all math puns are funny.
Just sum.
What do you call a girl standing in the middle of a tennis court?
Annette.
Pun content courtesy of @ThePunnyWorld on X.
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Breaking (broken?) news: After 208 years, The Farmers Almanac will stop publishing. The last edition will be the 2026 annual (on sale now). Access to digital content will end after December 2025.
This decision, though difficult, reflects the growing financial challenges of producing and distributing the Almanac in today's chaotic media environment. "We are incredibly proud of the legacy we leave behind and grateful to our loyal staff, readers, contributors, and partners who have supported us through the years," Duncan added. "Though the Almanac will no longer be available in print or online, its spirit will live on in the values it championed: simplicity, sustainability, and connection to nature."
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You may be cool, but are you "I jumped an F-14 Tomcat off a ski jump" cool?
This is not AI. The F-14 did 28 test launches off a 9-degree "ski jump" at NAS Patuxent River in 1982. The ramp was part of a Navy program to test the feasibility of a potential new class of carrier with a short flight deck and no catapults. The idea was abandoned because of the weight penalty from the undercarriage strengthening that would have been required.
I know what you're thinking. Fine for the F-14, but no ski jumps for the F-18, right?
I know what you're thinking. Fine for the F-14 and F-18, but no modern jets get jumped off a ski jump, right?
Now you know. Or if you knew, you've been reminded.
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On this the day after Veterans Day, we pause a moment to remember at the TRexes that served their country.
Hat tip: Hrothgar
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Today was the last day of US penny production for ordinary circulation, ending 232 years of production. The Philadelphia Mint struck the final penny earlier today. The cost of making a penny is currently 3.69 cents per penny. The penny remains legal tender, so you can still protest pay your parking tickets in buckets of pennies.
The Mint will still make limited quantities for collectors and "historical" purposes, so the "final" really isn't the "final, final." Kind of like seeing the Eagles, Kiss or Motley Crue in concert...
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I know what you're thinking. "I need some different decorations for Christmas this year." I've got just the answer - a seven and a half foot tall animated Wookie. Only $349 at the big orange home improvement store.
I know what you're thinking. "That's a bit spendy. How about something just as festive, but not as expensive?" I've got two answers for you - a seven foot tall Darth Vader or a 6 foot tall Stormtrooper. Only $299 at the same big orange box store!
I know what you're thinking. "Those are great, but I don't have much room and I'm dreaming of a droid Christmas." I've got just the thing for you - a three and a half foot tall R2-D2 for the same price.
Never mind. R2-D2 is out of stock.
Bah. Just get the seven foot tall inflatable dino wearing sunglasses playing the guitar. $66 and done. Much easier and as God and Santa intended.
Since this is a party, here is some nostalgic upbeat dance music for the big ONT finish:
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Figure skating training techniques sure have improved since I silvered at Nagano. I graced the ice to "Alone" by Heart.
Some trucks now have automatic-deployment snow chains. Kind of. The chains don't wrap around the tires, just rattle around under the tires to increase friction.
Lumpy Jack: The GOP isn't "taking away Obamcare subsidies." Those "emergency temporary subsidies" were always designed to expire.
During a portion of an interview with NPR aired on Monday's broadcast of "All Things Considered," Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) stated that the Affordable Care Act subsidies that were at issue in the government shutdown are not being taken away by Republicans, since "Democrats designed those tax credits to expire at [the end of] this year." And Republicans were saying they would take about extending the tax credits.
You know when pay channels offer you teaser rates of $3 per month for three months? And then the price zooms up to $15 per month but they trust you're not paying attention and will keep paying forever to watch old episodes of Hello Larry?
That's every single Democrat spending "plan." They claim the spending will only be for a short period of time and then when that time is up, guess what? It was always intended to be permanent spending until the end of days.
Institutional Shareholder Services and Glass Lewis advised investors to vote against the re-election of Gilbert Dávila, a DEI specialist, at the annual shareholder meeting on Nov. 20 -- slamming his "faulty" board-level marketing expertise.
The proxy firms seemingly implied that Dávila -- also one of Cracker Barrel's top individual shareholders -- played a significant role in the company's rebranding.
"Dávila is highlighted in board materials as one of two marketing specialists among the independent directors. He is also a member of a standing board committee whose purview is to assess social and political risks to the company's business," ISS wrote in a note.
However, the proxy firms did not push for the removal of CEO Julie Felss Masino, who took over the chain in November 2023.
Why?
Let me guess: Because she's a woke white woman with ginormous Attitude Glasses, which give her enhanced powers to Judge You, right? And we can't impose male standards of success or failure on woke women, who are alternately Super-Empowered Girlbosses or Damsels who need rescuing as the circumstances may require.
In more woke corporate news, the new non-woke head of Paramount devised a tricky way to get the woke non-workers to quit: He demanded that they "RTO," or Return to Office, and finally take off their Covid Jammies and put on normal work clothes and go to the office to work like all people have done since... well since people have had jobs.
Fortune, which used to be a business magazine and is now just another woke propaganda outfit, highlights the "cost" to the company of the severance packages.
As if those aren't being paid gladly.
About 600 employees in the company's Los Angeles and New York offices at the vice-president level and below took the buyout, according to company disclosures filed on Monday--and the severance packages set Paramount back $185 million. The filings cited restructuring costs "associated with actions to align the business around our strategic priorities."
I do understand and appreciate the advantages of working from home. (Obviously.) And I know this is a boon to many, and many workers will put in a good day of work from home.
But I've also seen all those "Day in the Life" Tik-Toks of entitled non-workers spending their whole day "at work" drinking Himalayan frog tea or whatever. And if that's what a lot of Millennials and Zoomers are doing at work, I cannot imagine what they're doing at home in their jam-jams.
Julie Kelly does not think much of The Blaze's "bombshell" revelation of the J5 bomber based entirely on gait analysis. Actually, her theory is that there is no J5 bomber, and that the video of someone walking around the Capitol on the evening of January 5 does not show that person actually planting bombs. She thinks the bombs -- or "bombs" -- were planted on January 6h. I would guess (but do not know) she thinks that the bombs were planted opportunistically after trouble had started, to sweeten the case against MAGA and the J6ers.
Whatever the merits of that theory, here's her new reporting:
ulie Kelly 🇺🇸
@julie_kelly2
5h
I spoke this morning with the individual believed to be "Person of Interest 3" (POI3) in the FBI's original pipe bomb investigation related to January 6.
I will not name this individual to protect his privacy since he just found out today (by me) that he had been under FBI surveillance for allowing another individual--"Person of Interest 2" (POI2)--to use his Metro card to travel to Washington DC for Stop the Steal events on Jan 5 and Jan 6.
I think this is the Metro card the FBI believes was used by the "bomber." I don't know if Kelly believes that.
POI2, according to a Congressional report published last year, was seen on security cameras on the morning of Jan 5 "photographing a dumpster next to the location where the RNC pipe bomb would later be planted." In the days after Jan 6, the FBI considered "POI2's movements to be 'highly suspicious' and considered POI2 as a 'possible accomplice' to the pipe bomber."
Both POI2 and POI3 were placed under physical surveillance by the FBI's Washington Field Office.
POI2 told investigators in an interview on Jan 19. 2021 that he had "traveled to Washington, D.C. to attend First Amendment activities on Capitol Hill on January 5 and that throughout the day, POI2 photographed 'objects bearing numerals' including doors, dumpsters, and other objects and intended to use these photographs in a book he was writing."
Both men were ruled out as suspects by late Jan 2021.
POI3 is a 66-year-old man currently employed by the Air Force. Here is what he told me today about the use of his Metro card by his friend (POI2) who he has known for more than 55 years.
"I have a friend who came up for the January 6 Stop the Steal protest, he lives out of state. I've known him since 1969, we went to elementary and high school together. He's from my understanding not affiliated with anything illegal or immoral. He is kind of like an evangelist, a religious educator [who] goes all around the world preaching the gospel but he's very Republican, very pro-Trump person.
He is probably 67 [years-old] now. He was probably 63 on January 6.
He came up a day before or a couple days before the January 6 date and I took him to the Metro. He stayed at my house. I took him to the Metro and I let him borrow my Metro card. I have an extra Metro card, I have one that I use to ride the Metro every day and one that I keep [as] my personal thing.
This was during the pandemic so I was working from home the entire time. So he went downtown the day prior to January 6 and he was downtown on January 6. I know he was doing some type of journaling for this event. I know he posted some stuff on Facebook. He was keeping a log telling everybody about all the events and activities that took place.
And then I think on the 7th of January, I took him back to Dulles to catch his flight. He came up again for the inauguration [this year] and I let him stay at my house again.
Now that relates to my friend who I've known since elementary school who I grew up with.
I lived next door to this individual who supposedly is identified as the pipe bomber from everything that I've heard. I've lived in this house [in Falls Church, Virginia] since 2003. So in 2021, they had moved in the year before, her and a gentleman. I knew them purely in passing exchanges, pleasantries on the street. I never went into their house so I don't have any idea of their political leanings in any way, shape, or form.
I've been contacted and I did look into the paper and when a picture of this supposed person came up, I said, yes that looks like her.
All I can say is there's two people involved in this that I know--my friend who I went to elementary school and high school together who asked for a favor to let him stay at my house during the January 6 rally.
As it relates to this lady, this policeman, other than her living next door to me, I have no involvement with her in any way shape or form. It was my understanding they worked for the Metropolitan Police Department, that's all I know and they were not here that long.
They just lived next door to me."
I will have much more to say on this shortly.
She does not think much of The Blaze's "scoop" or of Kyle Seraphim's various accusations.
Julie Kelly
@julie_kelly2
The allegations in The Blaze, the deceptive (and inconsistent) framing by Seraphin and his acolytes--which I will get to soon including his suggestion POI2 was the alleged pipe bomber's boyfriend lol--and this so-called "whistleblower" report promoted by Tom Massie all rely on the notion that the FBI pulled surveillance of these two men to cover up for the "pipe bomber" neighbor.
But as this man told me today, the true account of what happened is very straightforward. And I can tell you after speaking with him, he is extremely sincere, talked very plainly about what happened over those few days, and had no idea he (or his friend) had been a subject of the initial pipe bomb investigation.
That is why surveillance of both men ended--not some batsh*t conspiracy theory promoted by the likes of The Blaze and the "Suspendables" that somehow the FBI KNEW the neighbor was the pipe bomber and pulled the agents off the case.
More about her take on Seraphim's claims here. Seraphim is now saying he was actually surveilling the suspect publicized by The Blaze much earlier, and was pulled off that surveillance detail. I don't know. I believe it when I hear someone else confirming this.
🚨 HOLY CRAP! It's now been exposed that 14 days into the federal government shutdown - Democrat moderates were about to REOPEN everything, but Chuck Schumer ordered them into a 'backroom' and said "NO. HOLD OUT."
🚨 BREAKING: Harris County, Texas was just caught illegally sending more than $1.3 MILLION in taxpayer money to prevent the deportation of illegal alien criminals.
The funds are flowing into NGOs that fight President Trump in court. UNBELIEVABLE!
Immigration Attorney: Foreign Nationals go to the DMV to get a driver’s license, the DMV automatically registers them to vote.. “This happens a lot.” pic.twitter.com/BPzbQeP3bb
Hmm: GOP Senators Snuck a Provision Into the Shutdown Deal Granting Them the Right to Sue Over "Arctic Frost" Invasions of Privacy/Weaponization of Government
—Ace
The GOP did something sneaky that is not at the direct expense of their voters?
What is going on? What madness is this?
Some may say they engaged in self-dealing here, but I think there's plenty of positive public policy here. We need the Deep State exposed, and moreover, exposed to legal process.
A new provision was quietly inserted into Congress's shutdown deal as part of a broader appropriations bill late Monday, giving lawmakers the right to sue the federal government over the FBI's "Arctic Frost" surveillance campaign that targeted Republican senators and conservative organizations.
Under the new language, senators whose phone records were seized during Special Counsel Jack Smith's probe into the 2020 election can take the government to court -- and claim at least $500,000 per violation. The move comes after revelations that Smith's team, operating under former President Joe Biden's Justice Department, subpoenaed cellphone metadata belonging to GOP senators between January 4 and 7, 2021, as part of the so-called "Arctic Frost" investigation.
"It's designed to put real teeth into federal law that prohibits the executive branch from surveilling the Senate," Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) told the Daily Caller News Foundation. "Arctic Frost was a grotesque abuse of power. It was Joe Biden's Watergate." Cruz added that the measure is "a common sense provision to ensure that no Department of Justice -- Democrat or Republican -- ever does that again."
Cruz, who said last month that AT&T refused to hand over his records but was barred from notifying him due to a court order, is among several senators whose data were secretly subpoenaed. Judge James Boasberg, then chief judge of the D.C. District Court, approved the nondisclosure orders that kept lawmakers in the dark. The new provision would now make such secrecy illegal, requiring service providers to immediately alert a Senate office if its data is requested by federal authorities.
Notably, the measure applies retroactively to 2022, meaning those affected by Smith's subpoenas can pursue damages.
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Democrats, however, were quick to protest the late addition. "I'm shocked that a huge change in policy would be dropped into a bill at the last minute, and the first that most senators learn about it is in the press," Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) complained. "That's not lawmaking at a way that representatives can be informed."
Of course.
I know the GOP is supposed to be "against lawsuits" but here's how that's worked out in actual reality: The left writes every law to grant a private right of lawsuit to vindicate left-wing fake "rights," and the right never responds in kind.
Meaning the real policy is: Liberals can sue for everything, conservatives can sue for nothing.
If we're going to be sued for everything, then I want the reciprocal right to sue for everything myself.
"Sue everybody!" as noted Legal Whiner Saul Rosenberg advises.
And speaking of Ted Cruz --
and speaking of "Judge" Boasberg --
and speaking of impeachable behavior by left-wing rogue "judges" --
Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Federal Courts, Oversight, Agency Action and Federal Rights Chairman Ted Cruz on Monday scheduled a hearing on the possibility of impeaching "rogue" federal judges.
The hearing comes after Republicans complained that some judges have intervened with President Donald Trump's executive orders. Several lawmakers have introduced legislation this year that seeks to curb rogue judges, after multiple judges issued nationwide injunctions on some of Trump's agenda, instead of focusing on the people in the specific case.
Yeah I know "nothing will happen" but at some point you just need to start taking shots on goal.
I'm making no factual assertions,
but this is the face of a man who volunteers
to coach youth soccer because he's a fan
of energetic ball-play
Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) asked Attorney General Pam Bondi Thursday to unseal some "grand jury materials" from the FBI's Arctic Frost probe that would reveal special counsel Jack Smith's reasoning for seeking her and other Republicans' personal phone records.
Smith obtained call logs for at least 10 GOP lawmakers -- including Blackburn -- and the Tennessee senator wrote to Bondi requesting her "to use every tool ... to uncover a key component of the weaponized, Biden-era Arctic Frost investigation," according to a copy of the letter obtained by The Post.
That "key component" is an application for a non-disclosure order signed by DC US District Chief Judge James Boasberg, forcing phone carriers keep secret for one year Smith's subpoenas for the documents, which included the Republicans' addresses, inbound/outbound call and text records, and payment information.
"It is our understanding that this application is currently under seal in the Arctic Frost grand jury materials," Blackburn said. "We urge you to immediately unseal and provide this application that accompanied the gag order."
Boasberg has been a thorn in the side of the Trump administration's immigration policies after he issued a court order blocking deportation flights of alleged gang members to a Salvadoran mega-prison in March.
Judge Boasberg ordered that I not be informed that my cellphone records had been subpoenaed because he believed that I’d tamper with evidence or intimidate witnesses.
A few weeks ago, I published results from six waves of the massive Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) annual survey of undergraduate students. The data were unequivocal: the share of students identifying as a gender other than male or female--that is, as non-binary--peaked in 2023 and has halved in the two years since. This is a stunning reversal in the culture that will reverberate through society and politics in the coming years.
The survey captures over 50,000 students per year from nearly 250 leading American universities. Its size guarantees statistical power and enables us to look at small subgroups like trans or queer people. FIRE data is a random sample, a small percentage of each university's student body, and I wanted to be sure it triangulated with two surveys capturing a much greater share of the total. One comes from the elite Andover Phillips prep school near Boston; the other is run by Brown University's student newspaper. Both interview a far higher share of their target pool than FIRE surveys (up to 50 percent for Brown freshmen, and 75 percent in the Andover case). As Figure 1 shows, these surveys corroborate the "peak trans" pattern in the FIRE data, revealing a rapid decline since 2023.
Note that chart actually shows students saying their neither male nor female -- i.e., "non-binary" -- and is not about transgenderism per se. But transgenders would claim to be of the other sex, so it's hard to find them in these surveys. The author argues (plausibly) that the "non-binary" delusion is closely correlated with the trans delusion, but some, like pro-life/anti-groomer activist Billboard Chris, think it's an error to conflate the two.
The article also responds to technical criticisms like claims that these figures aren't weighted by demographics. That's both above my pay grade and below my threshold of actual interest.
Make up your own minds. I'm not your daddy.
Or... am I...?
Son?
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I expand more fully on these findings in my University of Buckingham Centre for Heterodox Social Science report, which also found that the decline in non-binary identification was matched by a 10-point drop in unconventional sexual identification. Namely, in students identifying their sexual orientation as something other than heterosexual or homosexual--such as pansexual, queer, questioning, bisexual, or asexual. Many students who identify as neither male nor female also identify as sexually non-conforming, so the correlation trend is unsurprising.
Sexual orientation has been measured in more youth surveys for longer than gender identity has been. While gay and lesbian share remained flat through 2020 to 2025, Figure 2 shows that the broader non-heterosexual group--covering bisexual, queer, pansexual, asexual, questioning, and other labels--rose steeply to 2023 and then fell across a wide range of surveys.
See the link for the chart. Preposterously, identification as non-heterosexual rose to 40% at some schools. It's so depressing I don't want to reproduce the chart here.
Here, in my digital home. My home!
The non-heterosexual proportion peaked at around 30 percent overall, reaching as high as 40 percent at progressive-leaning Ivy League schools like Brown and 50 percent in liberal arts colleges such as Smith College. Importantly, the decline in non-conforming sexual orientation parallels the decline in non-conforming gender identity, suggesting a common underlying dynamic.
Well, Smith is famously Finishing School for Lesbians.
Identification as non-heterosexual has also fallen, though not as dramatically as identification as "neither male nor female."
Classic pattern of social contagion or viral mental illness.
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Why is the trans curve bending downward? Are young people becoming more conservative and religious? No. The same FIRE student surveys that show non-binary gender and queer sexuality dropping like a stone find no shift to the political right over time, and no rise in the share affiliating with a religion. Students are also no more supportive of free speech, and no more opposed to shouting down speakers, than they were in 2020. They are as woke as ever, just less trans and queer.
While it's purely anecdotal, I can testify that from my own vantage point as a public high school teacher that the researchers are not imagining things. Not long ago, many schools across the country became pronoun battlegrounds, with students cycling through new "identities" every semester, and teachers instructed to oblige and rat out their colleagues who refused.
Today, pronoun announcements have all but disappeared. The once-growing cluster of self-identified non-binary students has shrunk dramatically. Whatever once felt like an unstoppable cultural wave now looks like what many warned it was all along: a disastrous social contagion.
But now must come The Great Reckoning:
While the trend may be reversing, the damage remains. Adults who have been entrusted with the well-being of our children, who should have been a bulwark of stability and truth, instead bent the knee to ideas that were, from the start, patently unscientific and philosophically incoherent. Administrators, professors, teachers, board members, and counselors all treated biological reality as hateful. Feelings were elevated above facts, and the ideological whims of a political crusade were permitted to rewrite human nature.
But, like the Japanese soldiers at the end of World War II -- and I still do not know which side I wanted to win that war; Demon Attack Survivor Tucker Carlson teaches me that both sides had heroes and villains, like Winston Churchill and also Jews -- they are still fighting to the last man for the last beach on the last island.
🚨BIG SCANDAL IN KANSAS SCHOOL— DISTRICT ALLEGEDLY HIDING PRO-TRANS BATHROOM POLICIES
Mother at @GardnerEdgerton in Kansas RIPS into the school board after discovering that a MALE student was allowed to INVADE the FEMALE locker rooms, potentially endangering the privacy of her… pic.twitter.com/ui4BS1BU1B
MUST WATCH: Parents at @DexterSchools in Michigan BLAST the school board for a new proposed Sex Ed curriculum that pushes radical LGBTQ propaganda, teaching kids they can be born in the wrong body and be trans.
A 6th grade classroom in @GreaterAlbanySD. The small American flag is rolled up in the corner while the room is plastered with dozens of lgbtq pride flags
Federal Judge May Sanction Gavin Newsom's Transgender Government For Lying in Legal Filings About California's Determination to Trans Children Behind Their Parents' Backs
—Ace
Gavin Newsom is playing hide-the-salami.
I mean, you already assumed that, but I mean he's playing it in court.
The state of California knew it would lose a case involving transing children behind their parents' back. So the state claimed they had changed the policy, thus "mooting" the case. Judges can't rule on moot cases, usually, so the manuever was designed to take the case out of the judge's hands before he could rule and establish precedent.
And then---
Whoops!
Whoopsie!
-- the supposedly "changed" policy popped right back up in teacher instruction materials, again telling teachers to trans children behind their parents' backs.
Federal judge threatens to sanction California for 'misleading' him in 'gender secrecy' case
"Forced outings," when students are already publicly identifying as the opposite sex in school and demanding others use fake pronouns to them.
They're already "out" to everyone in the world -- except their parents.
Scott Penis just doesn't want their parents to know.
Groomers and pedophiles always tell children to keep special secrets from their parents.
State claimed lawsuit over muzzling teachers, hiding students gender identity from parents was moot because it removed FAQ page with challenged policies, but they secretly popped up again in required teacher training.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom has repeatedly slurred a federal judge by name, echoing President Trump's history of diatribes against judges even before the current Democrat started copying the former Democrat's social media style and insulting nicknames.
The perceived contender for the 2028 Democratic nomination for president may cluck his tongue again when he sees the latest order from U.S. District Judge Roger Benitez in a lawsuit against The Golden State's alleged mandate on school districts to hide from parents their children's asserted gender identity at odds with sex.
The President George W. Bush nominee ordered state Attorney General Rob Bonta and the California Department of Education to "show cause" on why they should not be sanctioned for "misleading" Benitez so he would remove them from the suit by teachers who allege their school district muzzled them and parents of "gender incongruent children."
The state defendants' motions to dismiss and opposition to the plaintiffs' motion for summary judgment claimed that CDE had "withdrawn and conclusively replaced" an FAQ page that contained the challenged policies, which they claimed was the "only basis" for being named defendants and thus made the case moot, Benitez wrote.
"However, evidence demonstrates that the CDE may have merely moved the challenged content of the FAQ page to a new, required 'PRISM' training module," as documented by the plaintiffs' lawyers at the Thomas More Society, the judge said, ordering state defendants to explain their behavior Nov. 17 in court.
"From day one, officials from the local school district all the way to the governor's mansion have tried to deflect responsibility" but "have now been caught not only lying to California taxpayers but attempting to mislead the Court to escape accountability," TMS Executive Vice President Peter Breen said in a statement.
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It's the latest setback for state leaders in the case, in which Benitez has repeatedly sided with the plaintiffs.
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The society filed an application for sanctions Friday, pointing to a California Family Council article Nov. 3 on the new PRISM teacher training that includes a screenshot of a slide with "language very similar to the FAQ page" that the CDE took down.
The article links to a recording of a PRISM training, which it dubs an "LGBTQ 'Loyalty Test,'" that CFC describes as part of a curriculum mandated by the California Safe and Supportive Schools Act, developed in consultation with LGBTQ advocacy groups including the ACLU, Trevor Project and California Teachers Association.
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It makes explicit that school staff cannot tell parents if their children identify as the opposite sex, because they still have "a reasonable expectation of privacy" even if they are open about their gender identity at school. Schools can only disclose this to parents in "limited circumstances" such as "issues involving safety or wellness."
CFC said the training also falsely characterized the federal Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act in a test at the end of the training, claiming it forbids schools from sharing a child's gender identity with parents when FERPA actually "protects parents' right to access their child's records, not the state's right to withhold them."
In other words, they claimed the law required the exact opposite of what it required. It transformed a parent's right-to-know into a teacher's duty-to-conceal.
And then, while maintaining that the "law" required a teacher to have a duty-to-conceal, they claimed that no such duty exists so the case should be thrown out because it's a moot issue.
There is a law. There isn't a law. There is a policy. There isn't a policy.
Whatever Gavin Newsom's Transgender Government identifies as at any stage of the lawsuit.
While taking down the FAQ page left school districts "in a state of ambiguity" rather than confirming they could disclose gender identity to parents without student permission, the state defendants tried to play it both ways, "affirmatively telling school districts that Parental Exclusion Policies were legally required, while arguing mootness to this Court."
Very much related: An update to the dude in lipstick wagging his pickle at women in a women's changing room at Gold's Gym.
There's a Transgender Cinematic Universe cross-over later in the tale.
Incidentally, she's a Grammy-nominated singer. I never heard of her, but at my advanced age of 29, that no longer surprises me.
She certainly belted out a number here.
A viral video shows singer Tish Hyman confronting a transgender woman she says was inside the women's locker room at a Los Angeles gym.
The incident happened at a facility formerly operated as Gold's Gym, now run by EoS Fitness.
"I was in shock. I was scared, and I told him to leave. He would not leave, and had no regard for my naked body," Hyman said.
Hyman says it wasn't the first time she's encountered men in the women's restroom at that gym. She claims it's happened four times in the past two weeks and that she filed multiple complaints with staff that went unanswered.
In the cellphone footage, Hyman can be heard shouting, "Stay out of the women's locker room, we don't want it!"
The person she confronted has not been identified, and there's no indication that any crime or violation occurred. Hyman says the situation escalated during a confrontation.
"He said to me, verbatim, 'Straight women like to see D (genitals) so if anything, they're looking at me more than you,'" she recalled. "I was in complete shock."
You got that right? "D" stands, of course, for "Genitals."
Obviously.
Following the confrontation, both were removed from the gym, and Hyman says her membership was revoked because of her outburst. She insists her reaction wasn't about discrimination but about boundaries.
"Trans people have a right to exist," she said. "They need their own locker rooms and their own spaces. It doesn't make sense to put them in the same room with women."
And now... the rest of the story.
The black lesbian woman victim of the transgender -- who for some reason grabbed his "lubricant" as he left the gym (why? hot date?) -- confronted Scott Wiener, yes, Scott Penis, the very same guy pushing groomer laws and reducing penalties for having sex with underaged children -- about why he's letting "The D" (standing for "Genitals") invade black lesbian women's spaces.
She says she supports everything this unconcionable pervert does, except, she insists, that he mus protect women, and then adds that she means real women, and that transwomen are -- get this -- "not women."
Well! That causes the room to erupt in shock and horror.
I usually find a clean copy of video without commentary by YouTube talkers, but I'm linking Black Conservative Perspective because it's fun watching him appreciate the "black lesbian woman" wielding "three Infinity Stones of Wokeness."
As he says, this black lesbian woman is competing with Latrine John-Pissoir (or "Cringe" Jean-Pierre, as he calls her) for maximum identity name-drops.
Foreman points out almost all of the shocked people are, get this, white liberals.
Tone policing a black lesbian woman! Can you even?!
Still -- she's right. Just not based on her "identity. Except for one: Yes, women's bathrooms are for Birthing Persons with the actual identity of "real woman."
So that's another crossover and connection in the Transgender Cinematic Universe.
Except there's one more: If you go back about thirty seconds from where I have the video cued up, you'll see Scott Wiener bragging about his efforts to ban "forced outings."
Also known as "keeping parents in the loop when a child tells everyone except his parents that he's adopted a Fashion Gender." The very policy mentioned in the first item in this post.
It's alllllll connected, as Producer Guy would say.
New Democrat-Media Hoax Drops: Shock Emails Prove Trump Knew Epstein Was Recruiting Underaged Girls! And Knew One of the Victims! Unmentioned: Yes, We Knew He Knew, He Kicked Epstein Out of Mar-a-Lago. And the Victim Absolves Trump.
Not the Bee has a good recap. The charge made is that it is now "proven" by emails that Trump knew Jeffrey Epstein was recruiting underaged girls.
Except we already know that, because we already knew that Trump caught Epstein trying to recruit girls from Mar-a-Lago, and kicked him out of the club permanently for it.
The Democrat-Media Party attack deliberately omits to mention that (though the emails "revealed" by the Democrats also point that out -- again).
This isn't just old news -- it's old, exculpatory news, altered and fabricated to look like new, inculpatory news.
It's long been established that he kicked Epstein out of Mar-a-Lago and was one of the only high-profile people who worked with Bradley Edwards, the lawyer for Epstein's victims, in the 2000s
Not only did he bar Jeffrey Epstein from his properties, but there is some actual new news -- he told Ghislaine Maxwell to "stop" recruiting girls.
But, as Not the Bee notes, "it gets worse." Because the Democrat-Media Party deliberately anonymizes the source, despite the fact that she is world-famous, has come forward herself, and now is dead (by her own hand) so she does not need protecting.
The source is Virginia Guiffre, who everyone knows because she was the first and most prominent public Epstein accuser, and she sued Prince Andrew for what she claimed was sexual assault.
Why would they hide the name of someone who is and has been famously connected with this case?
For a very simple reason: Because Guiffre has repeatedly testified that she never saw Trump do anything wrong. The Democrats are implying that he did do something wrong, so they deliberately alter and fabricate the records to make it seem as if there's a New Accuser who might perhaps have more to offer about Trump.
She doesn't. She committed suicide and before that she completely absolved Trump of all wrongdoing.
Democrats intentionally redacted the name of the "victim" in the Epstein emails they released.
The unreacted version shows that it was Virginia Guiffre.
DEI Ding-Dong Kamala Harris: I Campaigned Brilliantly Against Donald Trump and Played a Keen Game of Three Dimensional Chess Against Him (Which, If You're Being Fussy, I Lost)
—Ace
I can hear the naysayers neighing -- they're saying:
"Ace, you are linking this story because it is ludicrously easy content where you don't even have to write a single word, the story tells itself and the objections to Kamala Harris are so obvious that you don't even have to mention them. This is just an easy lay-up post where the commenters will provide all the commentary so you can blow off work for an hour and just watch Office re-runs."
Former Vice President Kamala Harris said on "Storehouse & Friends" Sunday that she was determined to prevent President Donald Trump from beating her at "three-dimensional chess" during her 2024 presidential campaign.
Harris lost all seven swing states and the national popular vote to Trump in 2024. The former vice president said on the show that she recognized the Trump campaign's strategy and sought to ensure it did not affect her own.
"I was aware of my opponent's strategy. And I wasn't about to fall prey or fall into those traps," Harris said." And part of his strategy, and those around him, was to try and take me off our game and message."
"And I wasn't about to be distracted by those flames that he was trying to throw to get me away from one of my highest priorit[ies], which was talking to people about the economy and their well-being, in terms of their financial well-being," she added. "I understood the game that was being played and I made a decision that I wasn't going to get played."
Harris then cackled for several seconds while at least one of the hosts said, "Chess, not checkers."
Kamala Harris says she wasn’t going to fall for Trump’s “traps” during the 2024 campaign and that she was playing “three-dimensional chess.” pic.twitter.com/etPX5LZjmm
She successfully avoided Trump's "traps" and "checkers" play, but she could not outthink Mensa Chapter President, Chess Grandmaster (14,000+ rating) and Noted Rocket Trajectory Human Calculator Sonny Hostin, who played infinity-dimensional chess by asking the one question that nobody, except everyone but Kamala, expected.
The View: “If anything, would you have done something differently than President Biden during the past 4 years?”
Kamala: “There is not a thing that comes to mind in terms of and I’ve been a part of of of most of the decisions that have had impact.” pic.twitter.com/h8pJh0DMsw
She's got dead eyes, like a doll's eyes, don't even seem like they're livin', but when she talks about Venn diagrams, or electric schoolbuses, those eyes roll over white, and then you know she's alive, and you don't hear nothing' but the cackling and the slurring and the blaccent and the hollerin' about Fweedom and coconuts...
Below, black female "journalists" cry about having Failed to Position Kamala For Success. Which is generally not officially part of a "journalists'" function, but we're talking about left-wing black women here. Your stupid Pale Penis Patriarchy Rules do not apply, bigots.
"I should've answered that question better. Part of the problem was that I didn't fully embrace the reality of how people felt and I should have..."
Kamala Harris recognizes she stumbled on The View after answering she’d do nothing differently than Biden. pic.twitter.com/llkgquEcPI
"I feel terrible." WATCH Sunny Hostin squirm as The View's executive producer, Brian Teta asks her about how she "single-handedly taken down the Democratic Party - some would say democracy itself - with one question" to Kamala Harris. pic.twitter.com/odpa29dY3g
UK PM and Effeminate Pussy Keir Starmer Vows He Will "Fiiiiiight" Any Move to Depose Him
—Ace
Before that: This Effeminate Pussy just reduced the formerly "special relationship" between the UK and the US by announcing that the UK will no longer share "some" intelligence with the US... to protect his communist ally Maduro in Venezuela.
This is a major breach of our alliance.
The United Kingdom has suspended some intelligence sharing with the United States, its close ally, over the U.S. military's lethal strikes against alleged drug-trafficking boats in the Caribbean, since London thinks the attacks are illegal and does not want to be implicated, multiple outlets reported on Tuesday.
The decision to halt intelligence sharing, which took place earlier this fall, highlights the range of skepticism regarding the Trump administration's legal justification for the vessel strikes, which so far have killed at least 76 people.
The U.S. garners intelligence from a variety of sources, including the UK, which oversees some territories in the Caribbean and offers information that assists the U.S. in identifying boats suspected of smuggling narcotics in the region.
The gathered intelligence is normally delivered to the Joint Interagency Task Force South (JIATFS), based in Key West, Fla., which works on monitoring and detecting suspected illegal trafficking targets and conducting counter-narcotic operations.
More than a dozen countries, including close U.S. allies, have liaison officers based at JIATFS, which is led by Coast Guard Rear Adm. Jeff Randall.
The British have radar bases and listening stations in the Caribbean. You've seen James Bond movies. They're like all set in the Caribbean. It's kind of stupid.
So this isn't nothing. The British are denying us intelligence collected at Jamaica, the Bahamas, etc.
If you missed it, Argentina is talking tough again about seizing the Falkland Islands from the British, and this time, I say we side with Argentina.
These are the islands where the US maintains an absolutely vital base at Diego Garcia. The US will continue to have access to that base, for a while, as the UK negotiated a 99 year lease (on something they formerly owned)... but China will build its own base right next to ours soon enough. (The British negotiated a 24-mile buffer zone around Diego Garcia. Pretty sure a Chinese base 25 miles away would still be a threat.)
Yes, Keir Starmer is Britain’m's most unpopular PM ever. That could liberate him
Amazing. Hitler similarly felt liberated as the Wehrmacht dissolved. He felt so liberated he decided to YOLO a bullet into his own temple and liberate his cerebral cortex from his brain stem.
Forget the public vitriol and use the next four years to get things done -- first and foremost, whatever it takes to stop Reform
Somewhere in Greater Britain, a chicken cries out, "Help! I'm being sexually assaulted!"
(That is a real old-school reference.)
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As often, Wes Streeting dares say what all can see: that there is "deep disillusionment in this country at the moment" and "a growing sense of despair about whether anyone is capable of turning this country round". The "change" Labour promised is not yet visible; we still lack a guiding light towards better things to come.
Note that name "Wes Streetling" for later.
Yet, even so, the current vitriolic state of public opinion is perplexing and alarming. Keir Starmer is the most unpopular prime minister ever.
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As prime minister, he's short on charisma, they say: more seriously, he lacks political agility, ingenuity or instinct for where the wind blows.
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Polling guru John Curtice warns them to stop chasing Reform voters: they've gone.
Labour's leader is failing; there's no denying it when pollsters suggest no leader could ever return from these unplumbed depths.
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Unsurprisingly, panic on the back benches will make talk of leadership change rife if May's elections go as badly as predicted -- or, some suggest, sooner. I see aficionados reaching for the Labour party rulebook, reminding one another of a little-noticed but key change made at last year's conference. It's now easier to challenge a sitting leader at any time of year with a nomination backed by 20% of Labour MPs -- currently, 80 of them. Before, a leader was safe except in a brief pre-conference window.
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Here's ministers' paradox: Labour's only hope lies in despair. Assume they will be wiped out whatever, so use this massive majority for four more years to follow their natural social democratic instinct: make radical tax reforms, raising plenty. Expect to lose the next election, so do everything now. Forget opinion polls and focus groups; let voters see sincerity in their purpose. The only way to restore some respect is to do transparently what they think most right and fair.
Well that's a plan. As with Hitler: YOLO it.
Remember how Labour got this huge majority: It was emphatically not because the public craved more feckless IngSoc communism and control. Just a few years before, the public handed the "Conservative" party an enormous majority, one of the largest in history.
No, Labour only won because the "Conservative" continued allowing hundreds and hundreds of thousands of immigrants, many "boat people" criminals escaping justice in their own home countries, and absolutely would not change this policy no matter how much their own voters demanded it.
Their own voters were not yet ready to embrace the "extremism" of Reform, so they choose the path of self-harm -- political cutting -- of voting for Labour to send a message.
A message Labour itself didn't get either, though they make insincere claims about wanting to "stop the boats."
There was never any desire for a return of IngSoc. People just wanted the boats stopped. Now they have more destructive socialism and more boat criminals.
The General Electios won't take place for a while. I think that Guardian scrunt mentioned May. We'll get to the May elections below.
Keir Starmer, the most demasculated man in the world -- even Justin Castreaux at least uses his left-wing effeminancy to smash mish -- vows he will "fight" with every atom of male strength he has, which is three. Three atoms of male strength.
Allies of the prime minister are making it clear he would fight any challenge to his leadership from Labour MPs.
There are fears from those loyal to Sir Keir Starmer that his job might be under immediate threat, perhaps as soon as shortly after the Budget in a fortnight's time.
Critics say it is evidence that Downing Street is "in full bunker mode" which "won't help the government out of the hole we're in."
You know who else went into full bunker mode?
I'm not the only one thinking about Hitler. Me and Important Conservative Thought Leader Nick Fuentes have Hitler on our minds.
Friends of Sir Keir are deeply worried about what they see as plotting going on to try to replace him and are seeking to make clear what they see as the grave risks of a leadership challenge.
Those names being discussed by Labour MPs as potential candidates to displace Sir Keir include some of his closest cabinet allies, especially Wes Streeting, the health secretary, and Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood.
Absolutely Shabana Mahmood will deliver on Labour's insincere promise to stop the Islamic Invasion of Britain.
Some also speculate about the ambitions of Ed Miliband, the energy secretary, and backbenchers including the former transport secretary Louise Haigh.
The ambition of Streeting is seen with particular suspicion from some loyal to the prime minister.
Speaking to BBC Breakfast, Streeting called suggestions he would challenge Sir Keir "self-defeating nonsense", and said he was not standing against the prime minister.
Asked if he would ever consider making such a move, he replied: "I cannot see circumstances under which I would do that to our prime minister."
LOL. "I cannot foresee the eventualities under which such an ambition would even be contemplated" = "Yes."
Circumstances change, don't they, Colonel? Nice Army base you have 'ere. Would be a shame if anything were to 'appen to it.
He said the prime minister should sack the aide who was responsible for the briefing, which he described as "the worst attack on a faithful since Joe Marler was banished in The Traitors final".
He added that there was a "toxic culture" in Downing Street that needed to change.
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Opinion polls suggest Sir Keir is deeply unpopular, perhaps even the most unpopular British prime minister in the history of modern opinion polling.
Polls also suggest the Labour Party has commanded the support of no more than a fifth of the electorate in recent months.
But, a move to replace Sir Keir isn't straightforward. Under Labour's rules, it would take 20% of its MPs to nominate a challenger - 81 given the current size of the parliamentary party in the Commons.
For months now, plenty in the Labour Party have acknowledged that the government faces a likely crunch point after devolved elections in Scotland and Wales and local elections in many parts of England next May.
Ohhh, parts of the UK outside of England itself will hold elections. Most Scots vote for the socialist, pro-transgender, grievance based Scottish National Party, because at least it also pushes for independence. But for second place, Reform has just moved past Labour in polls.
But we're only talking a few seats there, not nearly enough to strip Labour of its huge majority.
The figures for Wales put Plaid Cymru on 28%, with Reform on 21%, the Green Party on 19%, Labour on 15%, the Conservatives on 12% and the Liberal Democrats on 4%. Other parties were at 2%.
But again, we are talking about a few seats changing hands here and there. Maybe. Not nearly enough to dent the Labour Majority.
Labour is widely expected to do badly in those elections, but there are growing concerns from some in the party that it can't wait until then to contemplate a change of leader.
Downing Street is aware of the potential imminence of such a threat to them.
One senior Labour MP told us: "It's all very well to say wait for the locals, but that's my activist base I'm sending into the gunfire. I can't lose all my councillors."
Another Labour source said: "The list of reasons for people to move after the Budget are growing by the day.
"If Wes is brave and moves he may well be rewarded by being prime minister by Christmas."
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The prime minister's supporters are telling Labour MPs they should be careful what they wish for.
They argue a leadership contest would plunge the party into the chaos associated with the final years of the Conservative Party's stint in office which came to an end last year, and install a leader who does not have their own mandate from the country.
They are trying to convince their colleagues that a contest could destabilise the international markets too, and would jeopardise the good relationship the prime minister has established with President Trump.
But others, including some ministers, fret about what they perceive to be the desperate position the government is in.
"It's terrible. He [Starmer] is hated out there. It is worse than it got under Corbyn. I don't see how this is sustainable until May," one minister said.
Keir Starmer has backed Wes Streeting and refuted the "completely unacceptable" No 10 leaks amid mounting speculation the prime minister could face a leadership coup.
As a civil war erupts at the top of the Labour Party, the health secretary has categorically denied that he is plotting to oust Sir Keir and called for those in Downing Street briefing against him to face the sack.
Nah it wasn't categorical. He said he could not foresee the circumstances. That's such a non-categorical non-denial it's essentially a confirmation.
In a flurry of anonymous late-night briefings, allies of the prime minister came out fighting on his behalf amid fears his job could be under threat after the Budget in two weeks' time....
Speaking during a fiery PMQs, Sir Keir said that "any attack on any member of my Cabinet is completely unacceptable", and insisted that the health secretary is doing a "great job" as he highlighted his record on turning around the NHS.
During his speech at the NHS Providers conference in Manchester Mr Streeting suggested he was not "on manoeuvres".
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Quizzed about a 2024 interview when he expressed his desire to be PM one day.
He said: I've got a hard job already, so I'm quite enjoying doing this, and I'm thank you very much."
Adding "I'm not going to say anything today that adds to the silly season that is going down."
He's totally not thinking of challenging Starmer just like Donkey-Chompers is totally not thinking of primarying Sloppy Schumer.
"I don't think that's a helpful or constructive thing to say, I also don't think it's true.
He doesn't "think it's true" that he's going to challenge Starmer? When will he have more certainty about that estimation?
In my day-to-day commerce, I usually pay cash. If I am not doing something for which I need plastic, I usually don't use it. I get some odd looks sometimes, but it's my preference. It also makes splitting the bill at restaurants easy. Recently, I've noticed that some computerized cash registers stopped reflecting reality. If the bill came to $15.02 and I put in a $20 bill, the computer changes the total deposited to $20.02 and then returns $5.00 even. Or if the bill comes to some other fraction - say $5.27 - the bill changes to $5.25 as soon as I put in cash.
I missed it, but the US Mint has decided to stop producing pennies. They ordered their last set of blanks this year and have apparently finished - or are about to finish - the final run of pennies. The reason is cost. Pennies cost nearly a nickle to produce and the Mint expects to save in excess of $50 million per year by ceasing penny production. But the oddity to me is how rapidly stores are front-running penny scarcity.
Pennies are still legal tender and there are still more than a billion of them in circulation. There is no penny shortage and there probably won't be for quite a while. "Production has ceased" doesn't mean "not available," but some major retailers are moving more or less immediately to do away with the penny. So far, I have seen differences of one to three cents round down, with four-cent remainders rounding up. I have probably seen a net savings of about a quarter in the past couple of weeks on rounding.
Credit card transactions still settle to the (virtual) penny and I know that cash transactions are distinct minority of all transactions, but I strongly suspect that all the rounding adds up. If I have put $0.25 in my pocket in fairly short order, that has to scale out in a pretty meaningful way. If retailers are moving this fast on phasing out the penny, manufacturing costs are probably not the only consideration. The costs of handling pennies must be pretty high, too, if a retailer would rather just write it off at the first possible moment they could get away with it.
Pennies may be in circulation and legal tender, but all of this rounding is going to drive them out as it spreads. So far, I've only seen this at a couple of major retailers and one fast food restaurant but it's also very clear that they were primed and ready to put the hammer down on pennies and started rolling it out aggressively. I strongly suspect that it will move out from there and I'll know it's more or less finished when the local diner does it. The US Mint stopped producing pennies, but it didn't kill them. It did, however, apparently provide "air cover" for retailers to do it. The penny will be legal tender forever, but will likely be effectively useless within a year or two.
I understand it. Pennies are expensive to manufacture (they have cost more than their face value for nearly two decades) and probably an expensive pain in the butt to deal with at scale, with the costs of managing them far outstripping their value on both fronts. Nonetheless, it's the end of something that has always been there. Those little copper-colored pictures of Lincoln will no longer change hands. Most will be gradually scrapped and recycled, with a non-trivial number remaining in collections, junk drawers and vacuum cleaner bags. In day-to-day commerce, the penny will not be missed. It will, however, become a symbol - loud through its absence - of the ravages of inflation and movement of technology.
We focused mostly on the climate change scam, which is his area of expertise, and veered into a few other things as is our wont to do.
In any case, over the last year or so, coincidentally or not with the start of the Trump 2.0 administration, much of the hysteria over climate change/global warming mercifully is on the wane and heading for oblivion. Of course until the next wave of globalist/Leftist-induced mass hysteria hits us over the head in yet another attempt to enslave humanity and destroy civilization so that the aforementioned cabal of Blofeld wannabes can lord over us peon/slaves/untermenschen.
Bill Gates's recent comments about the importance of adaptation echo former World Bank chief economist Larry Summers's response to the concept of “sustainability,” the moral rock on which the church of climate change was built. Though still a “serious” problem, Gates no longer regards human-caused climate change as an existential threat. “People will be able to live and thrive in most places on Earth for the foreseeable future,” Gates said. “Surprisingly, excessive cold is far deadlier [than extreme heat], killing nearly ten times more,” he admitted.
I assume that upon hearing his apostasy against Leftist dogma, you didn't get a warm and fuzzy feeling but instead smelled the proverbial rat about the size of a mastodon. Bill Gates and his big tech cronies are pushing AI hard and heavy.
Considering AI and everything associated with it vis a vis the technology that powers it requires massive amounts of energy, there is no way for it to exist without fossil fuel energy. So, Gates' denunciation of Global Warming Climate Change is mercenary in the extreme. And considering what he and his ilk crave, absolute power and the desire to reshape humanity and society in their image, there is no doubt that AI will be used mostly in pursuit of that cause, not for the advancement of humanity as we mere human beings imagine and desire.
While we're on the subject of apostasy, I've written about Sen. John Fetterman a few times over the past year or so, especially in the wake of the October 7th Islamic invasion and mass wave of butchery on Israel from Gaza. Since then he has been the very dim candle within the Category 10,000 hurricane of Israel/Jew hatred in the Democrat Party.
In the debate over the federal government shutdown, U.S. Senator John Fetterman, D-PA, has been the only Democrat to be critical of his party’s role in creating the debacle. In an interview on Sunday’s CNN show State of The Union with Jake Tapper, Fetterman said, “I feel like the Democrats really need to own the shutdown. I mean, we’re shutting it down.” In addition, Fetterman noted that the problem of “42 million Americans” facing “food insecurity” would be solved if Democrats “just reopen our government.”
Fetterman continued to blast his party’s neglect of Americans in need. He claimed, “Now we are hurting the very people that we fight for, and now we’re getting nothing for them if we continue to keep our government shut down.”
These comments are both accurate and courageous, as Fetterman stands alone among Democrats. Yet, the Senator is comfortable going his own way. No other Senator wears shorts and a sweatshirt in the halls of Congress. He has also shown tremendous perseverance, publicly dealing with his stroke and clinical depression.
So is Fetterman merely trying to walk a tightrope in a state that despite the hardcore leftist strongholds of Philly and Pittsburgh is generally Republican if not necessarily conservative. But then again, his base of support wouldn't come from there. Doesn't he risk the ire of his party's leadership who could easily replace him with someone more, pliable shall we say. But regardless, When Schumer or whoever cracks the whip 99 out of 100 times Fetterman will vote the party line. As an aside, and not coincidentally, vis a vis the aforementioned about Gates, Pennsylvania is oil and coal country. Black gold in them thar hills.
But given the issues at hand, exactly what is the party line? Right now, they appear to be melding into some sort of Marxist/Islamist entity as we can clearly see with the rise of Mamdani as well as the continued presence of such execrable beasts as Bernie Sanders and Titty Caca Ocasio. And with Schumer now seen as a sellout to Trump now that the shutdown is virtually over with the Democrats having essentially nothing to show for it.
America needs a 40-year pause in immigration—it was a major 20th century success: The population of America after the Civil War exploded, driven by immigration, which caused constant problems in Europe and the westward expansion of America, growing 25-30 percent every decade. . .
. . . The difference today from the 1880s to 1920s is the massive amounts of illegal immigration we have allowed, which went on steroids during the dark years of Joe Biden. That unvetted mass immigration is new, but the havoc it is wreaking is not. We saw it in the real wage decline of white and black Americans, which has only gotten worse since 2014. Because universities and the teachers they cranked out into public schools purposely stopped teaching real American history to focus only on the warts, most Americans today do not know that America has been around this block.
Michigan Senate Candidate Abdul El-Sayed Deleted Post Calling Border Patrol 'White Supremacists' and Blaming US for Illegal Immigration . . . The revelation comes after reports that El-Sayed deleted other posts supporting the 'defund the police' movement
As you can see and infer as I have from several of the links, it won't be very long before the Islamic hordes link up arms with Antifa, BLM, street gangs of the indigenous and imported variety to hold us hostage or worse, all at the behest of the Mamdanis and Titty Caca's of the Party.
Perilous times ahead, my friends. CAIR, ANTIFA and everyone who supports, funds and protects them must be collectively destroyed, before they destroy us.
HOW we are to accomplish that act of self-preservation, given the corruption of our government and crucially our justice system, is the question.
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In a post on X, Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division Harmeet Dhillon shared a letter that was addressed to UC Berkeley Police Chief Yogananda Pittman. In the letter, Pittman was asked to “preserve all records” in her possession that are “relevant to the agency’s preparation, execution, and response to the Turning Point event held” at the campus on Monday, along with related protests. (I think I see the problem: a police chief called Yogananda and not O'Hara - jjs) DOJ Launches Investigation into UC Berkeley over Antifa ‘Mob Violence’ at TPUSA Event
Barring some unnecessary Republican crash-out — always a high possibility! — this partial federal government “shutdown” was destined to end with Democrat leaders finally leveling with their own angry voters to say, Yeah, we got nothing, and I don’t have any good answers for you right now. The Shutdown Was Always Going To End With Democrats Caving And Looking Ridiculous
. . . I don’t need a lecture. I don’t need a lecture from from whether it’s Bernie or the governor in California, because they are representing very deep blue, blue kinds of populations and a lot of those things were part of the extreme.” Fetterman Rejects ‘Lecture’ from ‘Extreme’ Dems on Shutdown
Efforts on public order and outreach to the business community show promise after years of dysfunction. San Francisco’s (Partial) Comeback
California’s voters, blinded by hatred of Trump, keep empowering the corrupt coalition that’s driving the Golden State into decay, debt, and disorder. In California, Hate Won Again
Eliminating property taxes entirely would throw out the good with the bad. What’s needed is reform, and Texas Governor Greg Abbott has a plan. The Abbott Property Tax Plebiscite
People Magazine noted that LAPD Capt. Warner Castillo indicated the “intruder wandered into an apartment complex on the 4500 block of Tujunga Avenue” and two women began to scream. The Vietnam veteran ran toward the screams and the naked man allegedly attacked the veteran, slammed him on the concrete driveway. Both the Vietnam veteran’s legs were broken in the attack, yet he was still able to “grab his gun” and shoot the naked man at least twice. Los Angeles: 79-Year-Old Veteran Saves Neighbor, Fatally Shoots Nude Home Invasion Suspect
OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY/LEFTIST-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY
A Holocaust survivor once thought, “It can’t happen here.” Now, she sees Trump as one of the few things that can stop it from happening again. ‘I Beat Hitler’
RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS,
Bill Gates' recent comments about the importance of adaptation echo former World Bank Chief Economist Larry Summers' response to the concept of “sustainability,” the moral rock on which the church of climate change was built. Bill Gates and the Church of Climate Change
Senate Republican Leader John Thune described his party’s negotiating position to reporters before the chamber passed a bill on Monday to reopen the government, according to NBC News. Thune’s remarks set the stage for the next partisan fight over expiring health care subsidies that were at the center of the longest government shutdown on record. “Democrats must dismiss this radical Trojan horse against women’s essential healthcare out of hand,” he said. (Trojan and Abortion in the same sentence? - jjs) Senate Republicans tie healthcare subsidies to abortion limits
AMERICA AND THE WORLD IMPRISONED: CHINESE+Fauci-created CORONAVIRUS FICTIONS AND FACTS
A close collaborator of virologists who studied coronaviruses in Wuhan frequently advised America’s top spy agency in the lead-up to the pandemic, and that same agency suppressed intelligence on the parallels between COVID-19 and their research. The Office of the Director of National Intelligence’s (ODNI) hub for foreign biological threats dismissed the intelligence pointing to a lab accident in Wuhan as “misinformation” in January 2021, two former government sources who requested anonymity to discuss sensitive internal meetings told the Daily Caller News Foundation. New documents show that intelligence risked implicating ODNI’s own bioengineering advisor — University of North Carolina professor Ralph Baric. Spy Agencies Cozied Up To Wuhan Virologist Before Lying About Pandemic
THE 2020 and SUBSEQUENT ELECTION HEISTS , SHENANIGANS/FRAUD and AFTERMATH
Republicans who still excuse Tucker Carlson or Nick Fuentes in the name of “unity” mistake corrosion for conviction. Neither of these men stands for the GOP, or for any coherent vision of America worth defending. Tucker Carlson and Nick Fuentes are Enemies of the GOP
POLITICS
Ever since his first election in 2016, Trump has been thwarted, tormented, impeached and mocked by Schumer and former Dem House leader Nancy Pelosi. And now he has turned the tables on them in devastating fashion, with Schumer likely to be dethroned as Senate minority leader and Pelosi packing her money bags to leave Washington for good. They fancied themselves the ultimate gatekeepers and, backed by leftist media, never stopped trying to gut Trump’s presidency and neuter his powers. Michael Goodwin: Toxic Dems Schumer, Pelosi get shut down – and Trump stands tall with one of his biggest DC wins
Going through the list in this column, beginning with Schumer, we have New York, Illinois, Hawaii, Wisconsin, Minnesota, and New Jersey. That's five super-blue states and one purplish-blue state (Wisconsin). Remember when Dems liked to brag that they were fighting for working-class people in Middle America? If Schumer Gets Booted From Leadership, the Replacement Options Are Nightmares
Christine Pelosi has entered the race for California’s State Senate, launching her campaign Monday to succeed outgoing Senator Scott Wiener, who is pursuing a seat in Congress… The one currently held by outgoing House leader Nancy Pelosi. (Another Nepo Demon-Seed - jjs) As One Pelosi Exits, Another Enters: Christine Launches State Senate Bid
Igal Ekdesman, Deputy Head of Mission at the Israeli Embassy, explained during a local event that the Iranian proxy terror group is working “hand in hand” with organized crime and extended an offer to help draft legislation establishing a list of organizations that must be “fought.” Report: Israel Warns Uruguay Hezbollah Is Building Ties to Organized Crime in Region
The situation has become acute enough that the repressive Islamist regime in charge of Iran has allowed for open discussion of water rationing in state media and President Masoud Pezeshkian, who is subordinate to “supreme leader” Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has proposed relocating Tehran to a more water-rich region. Iran Throttles Nightly Water Pressure in Tehran Due to Brutal Drought — Denies ‘Rationing’
President Trump’s recent “C5+1” summit with the leaders of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan did what Washington summits too rarely do: it produced results. Trump gets results in Central Asia
The Knob Noster Trailer Park in rural Missouri is located less than a mile from the runway of “the world’s only nuclear-capable stealth bomber.” Business filings and social media posts reveal the RV park is one of several properties near U.S. military interests acquired by a web of shell companies, which are ultimately owned by a couple who live in Canada and belong to organizations controlled by disgraced Chinese tycoon and self-described former CCP intelligence “affiliate,” Miles Guo, The New Yorker wrote in a 2022 profile. EXCLUSIVE: US Nuclear Bomber Fleet Shares Fence With Trailer Park Linked To Chinese Intel-Tied Fraudster
He has been consistent in placing abortion at the center of Catholic political engagement, calling it the “preeminent priority” for voters, praising Oklahoma lawmakers “for supporting pro-life measures,” and arguing that a true culture of life requires both legal protections for the unborn and a “profound change of heart,” the Catholic News Agency reported. Conservative Archbishop Paul Coakley Named Head Of US Catholic Bishops
HITHER & YON
After a rendition of the National Anthem, which Trump observed alongside Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of Veteran Affairs Doug Collins, and Brigadier Gen. Antoinette R. Gant, Trump laid a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in a quiet and solemn moment. President Trump Lays Wreath at Tomb of the Unknown Soldier on Veterans Day
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Apparently not, because they also sold their stake in T-Mobile for $9.17 billion, making a quarterly profit of $16.6 billion, and are planning to use the funds to invest further in OpenAI.
Not the worst product, not by a long shot, but there was no real market for it.
Microsoft used to sell accelerator cards for computers. They started with the SoftCard for the Apple II, which added a Z80 for running CP/M. Later they had an 8086 card called the Mach 10 and then an 80286 card called the Mach 20 for IBM PCs and compatibles, which took over from the 4.77MHz 8088 assuming that's what you had.
None of those are the thing. They all sold... Fine, basically.
No, the thing was the OS/2 operating system - for the Mach 20 card. It required a custom version.
Microsoft sold eleven copies. Eight of them were returned.
One of my former colleagues spoke with the person who took over from him as the support specialist for OS/2 for Mach 20. According to that person's memory [...] a total of eleven copies of "OS/2 for Mach 20" were ever sold, and eight of them were returned. That leaves three customers who purchased a copy and didn't return it. And the support specialist had personally spoken with two of them.
Wait, there was a time when you could return software?
Yes, we've been down this road before. But at least both Steve Jobs and his audience knew the idea was ridiculous, and in 2004 you got a six pack of socks in a rainbow of colours for $29.
I saw - just yesterday, I think - a YouTube video reporting that Chinese EV market leader BYD was losing money twice as fast as Tesla is making it - around $10 billion per quarter.
In China, you can buy a heavily discounted "used" electric car that has never, in fact, been used. Chinese automakers, desperate to meet their sales targets in a bitterly competitive market, sell cars to dealerships, which register them as "sold", even though no actual customer has bought them. Dealers, stuck with officially sold cars, then offload them as "used", often at low prices. The practice has become so prevalent that the Chinese Communist Party is trying to stop it.
Sounds like the same scam we've seen a thousand times before, right before things turn pear-shaped.
Often but not exclusively in nominally communist countries.
ClickFix often starts with an email sent from a hotel that the target has a pending registration with and references the correct registration information. ... Once the mark accesses the malicious site referenced, it presents a CAPTCHA challenge or other pretext requiring user confirmation. The user receives an instruction to copy a string of text, open a terminal window, paste it in, and press Enter.
There are two kinds of people in my family. The first kind would say Open a what? and call one of the second kind. Who is probably in the next room installing BSD 4.4 on an IBM RT they found at Goodwill for $5.
The second kind would laugh and say They're not even trying anymore! before returning to the task at hand.
Well, up to one of those. It starts with a 255HX and a mobile 5070 Ti (remember that Nvidia's mobile model numbers are generally equivalent to the next lower desktop model) for $2105.
One of the most intense and profound moments in history. 11am on the 11th November 1918 when the guns fell silent. This should be shown in every school. pic.twitter.com/zLyko3wqMV
Silence fell on the land, on the eleventh hour, on the eleventh day or the eleventh month in the year of 1918. Birds chirps replaced the crack and thud of the cannons. Peace returned; but the seeds of war were already planted, even before the silence took over or could last.
Peace was a welcome respite. But it would be silenced in a too short few decades later. Lest we forget. Peace is like the fleeting chips of the birds—too easily lost. Too much money to be had on the other side of those chirps.
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Veterans Day 30 Years Ago
In 1995, the NYC Veterans Day Parade was in dire financial straits.
President Trump personally donated $200,000 and raised another $300,000 to save the parade.
“If we cannot as a nation decide not to continue a subsidy that was imposed, or was enacted, during a national health emergency and was designed to be temporary and that all the Democrats voted to have be temporary, if we can’t let that expire, what hope do we ever have of getting government spending under control?”
THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION, a new six-part, 12-hour documentary directed by Ken Burns, Sarah Botstein and David Schmidt examines how America’s founding turned the world upside-down.
Thirteen British colonies on the Atlantic Coast rose in rebellion, won their independence, and established a new form of government that radically reshaped the continent and inspired centuries of democratic movements around the globe.
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Filmmaker Quote: “The American Revolution is one of the most important events in human history,” said Ken Burns. “We went from being subjects to inventing a new concept, citizens, and set in motion democratic revolutions around the globe. As we prepare to celebrate the 250th anniversary of our founding, I’m hopeful that people throughout the country will come together to discuss the importance of this history and to appreciate even more what our ancestors did to secure our liberty and freedoms.”
Surprisingly decent write-up - with the exception of this unnecessary bilge
Though it’s hard to watch The American Revolution without awareness of the anti-monarchic sentiments shared at recent rounds of “No Kings!” protests — to hear the noble egalitarian sentiments that launched the American experiment without pondering the ways the fulfillment of our freedoms has fallen short of our loftiest aspirations — the doc does not overtly acknowledge Donald Trump.
The year 2026 will mark 250 years since the Declaration of Independence was signed in 1776, a milestone also known as America's semiquincentennial.
Located down the street from Independence Hall, where both the Declaration of Independence and the US Constitution were signed, the Museum of the American Revolution in Philadelphia is gearing up for the celebration with a special exhibition, "The Declaration's Journey." The collection features over 120 artifacts that chronicle the impact of the Declaration of Independence in the US and around the world.
"The Declaration's Journey" opened on October 18 and will remain on display until January 3, 2027, in honor of the anniversary.
The museum also features a permanent collection with artifacts focusing on the creation of America as an independent nation. The exhibits guide visitors through exploring four questions: How did people become revolutionaries? How did the Revolution survive its darkest hour? How revolutionary was the war? And what kind of nation did the revolutionaries create?
Pretty good article. Photos of some of the artifacts at the link.
Perhaps we could have a mini-MoMe at the museum one day in the spring when it warms up? Anyone interested?
Just a few months ago, we reported that MGP, one of the biggest American whiskey distilleries, saw a drop in sales of nearly 25 percent. While that was bad news for the company, it also was in line with much of the other reporting out there detailing the slowdown that is currently affecting the whiskey industry. Well, some more bad news arrived late last week for MGP in terms of reduced sales and income, but the company is trying to put as good a spin on the situation as it can.
According to a press release issued by MGP on October 29, the third quarter of 2025 was bleak compared to that of the prior year. Consolidated sales decreased by 19 percent to $130.9 million, consolidated gross profit dropped by 25 percent to $49.4 million, net income fell by 35 percent to $15.4 million, and EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization) dwindled by 29 percent to $32.3 million. According to the report, the decrease in sales was mostly due to “expected declines in brown goods sales”—in other words, whiskey—directly leading to the drop in profit.
Want to impress (or overwhelm) your loved ones this holiday? Don’t buy them a bottle of Jack Daniel’s. Instead, buy them a new three-liter bottle of Jack Daniel’s Old No. 7 Tennessee Whiskey, now available in the U.S. for the first time since Prohibition.
“Old No. 7 Tennessee Whiskey has been at the heart of everything we make at the Jack Daniel Distillery since the days of Mr. Jack himself,” said Chris Fletcher, Master Distiller, Jack Daniel’s. “We hope this bold new take will help create timeless holiday memories that last long after the bottle is gone.”
Right, but … three liters? That’s four times the size of a typical booze bottle and almost twice as much as the previous largest Jack Daniel’s offering (the distillery currently sells their Old No. 7 release in 50 mL, 100 mL, 200 mL, 375mL, 750 mL, 1 L and 1.75 L sizes). Then again, at $80, that’s somewhat of a bargain, given that the 750 mL bottle retails for about $25-$30.
That is a lot of whiskey!
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Long article for you whiskey nerds and/or insomniacs out there...
DJ Doof - This Date in Music History Edition
(from thisdayinmusic.com)
On this date in 2014: Big Bank Hank (Henry Lee Jackson), from The Sugarhill Gang died aged 58 from kidney complications due to cancer. The Sugarhill Gang were the first hip hop act to have a hit with the cross-over single 'Rapper's Delight' in the pop charts in 1979.
On this date in 1972: 24-year-old bassist Berry Oakley, a founding member of The Allman Brothers Band, was killed in a motorcycle accident. In a horrific coincidence, the crash took place in the same intersection where bandmate Duane Allman was killed just one year earlier.
Born on this date in 1953: English guitarist, singer-songwriter and record producer Andy Partridge best known for co-founding the band XTC
Why did I choose that particular song? Maybe today's date has something to do with it.
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cisely 11:11 a.m. each Veterans Day (Nov. 11), the sun's rays pass through the ellipses of the five Armed Services pillars to form a perfect solar spotlight over a mosaic of The Great Seal of the United States.
Thank you for your service, Veterans!
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Veterans Day, more accurately known as Armistice Day, is celebrated on November 11, because that is when the Great War to end all wars concluded.
After the Korean and Vietnam wars, it was renamed Veterans Day.
Thanks to all who have and are serving.
Thank you for your service.
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A very primal forest in Vancouver. Probably AI because AI ruins everything.
You know that "hurricana"/"hurricane" martial arts move that Black Widow does? (And every female action hero...?) Where they jump up at your neck, wrap their legs around your neck and head, and then flip you on to the ground? Well, maybe this is just footage from a movie, or maybe this is the hurricana performed for real...
I think everyone gets one or two free conspiracy theories. If you don't have any unconventional beliefs, you're kind of boring. You do not have, as Michael Scott said, a "child-like sense of wonder."
If you have three to five conspiracy theories, then I'd say you have a preference for the fantastical and dramatic and you prefer action-thriller movie plots to pedestrian but much more likely explnations. You like big, bold, often-gibberish theories that are more interesting than dull reality.
If you believe in six to ten conspiracy theories, well, now I think you're kind of a loon and maybe a bit credulous and low-IQ. Now I think you just believe in conspiracy theories because they're pretty simple.
But, if like Tucker Carlson, you now believe in ALL OF THE CONSPIRACY THEORIES, I don't think you're a loon.
I think you're a grifter playing the loons for Paranoia Clicks.
I think I mentioned this once or twice, maybe just in the comments, but I kind of liked Joe Rogan -- I don't really watch him, I just see clips every once in a while -- precisely because he was so open-minded that his brain sometimes falls out. He'll believe anything. Has no working bullshit detector at all, except for the bullshit detector that tells him everything, anything "The establishment" or "conventional medicine" or "leading authorities" tell him must be a lie.
While I think that's moronic, I also do enjoy being a little irresponsible once in a while. No I do not believe, as frequent Rogan guest Graham Hitchcock (or whatever) claims, that there were world-traveling ancient civilizations that fell and completely disappeared before the earliest known civilizations like Babylon.
I don't believe that... but I'd kind of like to, because it's a silly Pulp Fiction conceit which, if true, would make the world a more magical, goofier place.
So I don't mind when people toss around basically-harmless conspiracy theories. The "archeological establishment doesn't want you to know of unknown ancient civlizations that crossed the seas in advanced oceangoing ships and had cultural exchange with each other! They're covering up the evidence because it would be TOO SHOCKING to realize that human civilization once rose and fell and completely vanished from the earth!"
Nonsense, but fun. And if you believe that, there's not going to be any bad consequences.
Maybe we didn't have to be so serious all the time and obsessed about the Right Answers but we could sit back, untuck the shirt, unbutton the top button, and just have a nice harmless Bullshit Session.
So I didn't mind when Tucker Carlson started with the UFO crap. I figured he was doing it for ratings, being some kind of modern-age PT Barnum. And if people believed in flying saucers, so what? And maybe it was some kind of sharp critique on modern media myth-making. Who knows.
But now Tucker Carlson embraces every paranoia and every primitive subterranean fear and hatred and packages it up for a (largely foreign!) internet audience.
And now it doesn't seem so funny.
And now it doesn't seem so harmlessly, friskily irresponsible.
Now it seems like a very cynical and nasty and greedy operator is peddling fear and hatred to confused and spiritually-lost people looking for answers and oh yeah, the answer is always Israel and Jewish Perfidy.
Maybe it's time to tuck our shirts back in, because, as usual, nasty, stupid, evil-minded people ruin every party.
People are too quick to forget the price that some people paid for being correct early on about Antifa, BLM, and leftist evils. Many in the center remained completely silent as others were expunged, injured or beaten. https://t.co/85qZdMLTdM
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Podcast: Buck Throckmorton joins us for a wide-ranging discussion about the cultural and business shift away from the insanity of EVs and Climate Religion, his calm perspective on last week's election, Tucker is a toad, and more!
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Tucker Carlson claims that it's weird that Ted Cruz is interested in the massacre of Christians by Nigerian Muslims, because he has "no track record of being interested in Christians," then blows off the massacre of Christians by Nigerian Muslims, saying it might or might not be a real concern Tucker Carlson enjoys using the left-wing tactic of "Tactical Ignorance" to avoid taking positions on topics. Is Hamas really a terrorist organization? Tucker can't say. He hasn't looked into it enough, but "it seems like a political organization to me." Are Muslims slaughtering Christians in Nigeria? Again, Tucker just doesn't know. He hasn't examined the evidence yet. He knows every Palestinian Christian who said he was blocked from visiting holy sites in Bethlehem, but he just hasn't had the time to look into the mass slaughter of Christians in Nigeria that has been going on since (checks watch) 2009. He doesn't know, so he can't offer an opinion. Wouldn't be prudent, you know? Don't rush him! He'll sift through the evidence at some point in the future and render an opinion sometime around 2044. Of course, if you need an opinion on Jewish Perfidy, he has all the facts at his fingertips and can give you a fully informed opinion pronto. Say, have you ever heard of the USS Liberty incident...? You'd think that the main issue for Tucker Carlson, who pretends to be so deeply concerned about Palestinian Christians being bullied by Jews in Israel (supposedly), would be the massacre of 185,000 Christians in Nigeria itself. But no, his main problem is that Ted Cruz is talking about it, "who has no track record of being interested in Christians at all." And then he just shrugs as to whether this is even a real issue or not.
Whatever we do we must never "divide the right," huh?
Tucker is attacking Ted Cruz for bringing the issue up because he's acting as an apologist for Jihadism, and he can't cleanly admit that Jihadists are killing any Christians, anywhere. There is no daylight between him and CAIR at this point.
One might conclude that Tucker Carlson himself isn't interested in the plight of Christians -- except as they can be used as a cudgel to attack Jews. Just gonna ask an Interesting Question myself -- why is it that Tucker Carlson's arguments all track with those shit out by Qatarian propaganda agents and the far left? That if Jews crush an ant underfoot it is worldwide news, but when Muslims slaughter Christians it elicits not even a vigorous shrug?
I once glimpsed Garth in the penumbra betwixt my wake and sleep. He was in my dream, standing afar, not looking my way, nor did he acknowledge me. But I felt seen. And that's when I knew I was a traveler on the right path. I'm glad he's still with us.
Greetings, Traveler. If you still have not experienced Garth Merenghi -- Author, Dream-weaver, Visionary, plus Actor -- the six episodes of his Darkplace are still available on YouTube and supposedly upscaled to HD. (Viewing it now, it doesn't appeared upscaled for shit.) I think the second episode, "Hell Hath Fury," is the best by a good margin. Try to at least watch through to that one. It's Mereghi's incisive but nuanced take on sexism.
Podcast: The elections! NYC, Virginia, New Jersey, Texas, California, and the future prospects of the Republican party...
Update on Scott Adams:
Scott Adams had approval for this cancer drug but they hadn't scheduled him to get it. He was taking a turn for the worse. Trump had told him to call if he needed anything, so he did. Talked to Don Jr (who is in Africa) , then RFK Jr, then Dr Oz. Someone talked to Kaiser and he was scheduled. Shouldn't have needed it but he did and he says it saved his life.
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Podcast: Historian and Pundit Robert Spencer joins us for a wide-ranging discussion about the Islamists in our midst: Mamdani in NYC, all across Europe, and others.
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